Well-wishes are pouring in from members of the Trump administration and figures across the political world after former President Joe Biden’s office revealed this evening that he has been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer.

President Donald Trump wished Biden a “fast and successful recovery” in a message on social media, extending his thoughts to the former president and first lady.

Here are more of the statements from Washington and beyond:

• wrote on X that he and his wife “are united in prayer for the Biden family.”

• , who was endorsed by Biden for the presidency in 2024 after he bowed out of the race, referred to him as a “fighter” in a post on X, adding that she is confident he will face this with “the same strength, resilience, and optimism that have always defined his life and leadership.”

• said his family will be “joining the countless others who are praying for the former President in the wake of his diagnosis.”

• , the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, said she is thinking of the Bidens as they deal with “a disease they’ve done so much to try to spare other families from.”

• , a close MAGA ally to Trump, wrote on Twitter, “Cancer is truly awful. My Dad passed away in 2021 with cancer. Prays for Joe Biden and his family.”

• , the 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate, said he and his family were praying for Biden, calling him “a truly decent man and a friend.”

• , who is considered a leading contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, described Biden as “a man of dignity, strength, and compassion” in a post on X, adding that he is “sending strength, healing, and prayers his way.”

• , another potential contender for the 2028 Democratic nomination, said he and his husband are keeping Biden and his family in their prayers “for strength and healing.”

This post has been updated with additional statements.

President Donald Trump wished former President Joe Biden a speedy and successful recovery after he was diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer.

The brief statement marks an expression of empathy for Biden, someone Trump has continued to criticize and accuse of cognitive decline, even after he dropped out of the 2024 race against him.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul expressed doubts today about a Trump administration plan to accept a luxury jet from the Qatari royal family to use as Air Force One, saying it “gives the appearance of a conflict of interest.”

“We have a veto power in Congress, and I’ve been part of vetoing — or trying to veto — arms before to Qatar, as well as Saudi Arabia, over human rights abuses,” Paul said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“So could it color the perception of the administration if they have a $400 million plane to be more in favor of these things? Perhaps. It at least gives the appearance of a conflict of interest.”

The Kentucky lawmaker is one of several GOP senators to share misgivings over the unprecedented move to accept the Boeing 747-8.

Responding to a question about the legality of accepting the gift, Paul said there probably was a “perfectly legal way” to set up the transaction, but that it’s simply not worth the issues raised.

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine said on “Fox News Sunday” that some good came of Trump’s Middle East trip, echoing rare praise for the president made by some others in the party after the visit — though Kaine also said some of Trump’s deals in the region raise “glaring corruption issues.”

Trump’s former Vice President Mike Pence, meanwhile, slammed Trump for what he described as “criticizing America on foreign soil” during the trip.

Referring to remarks Trump made in Riyadh on Tuesday, in which he said “so-called ‘nation-builders’” of the foreign policy establishment had “wrecked” more than they fixed in the region, Pence said the comments were a “disservice” to military veterans who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Pence has also been publicly critical of the Qatari plane gift.

Vice President JD Vance’s office offered a brief readout of today’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which also included Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Notably, the statement was accompanied by a photo of Zelensky and Vance smiling widely at the meeting. During Vance’s last audience with Zelensky in Washington in February, a heated exchange broke out in the Oval Office after Vance accused Zelensky of a lack of gratitude toward the United States for providing aid during the war.

Patience is needed in the US effort to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine, but “we don’t have time to waste,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said today, warning Moscow not to deliver an unrealistic ceasefire proposal.

“Are they tapping us along? That’s what we’re trying to find out. We’ll find out pretty soon,” Rubio said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

“There’s some element of patience that is required. On the other hand, we don’t have time to waste, so we don’t want to be involved in this process of just endless talks,” Rubio added.

The secretary of state expressed optimism that President Donald Trump’s plan to speak directly by phone tomorrow with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin could break the “logjam.”

Rubio wouldn’t say if an in-person meeting is being planned just yet, but emphasized that Trump has offered.

As talks continue, Rubio suggested the administration would not stand in the way of the Senate’s consideration of new sanctions on Russia. The sanctions bill is being spearheaded by GOP Sen. Linsey Graham.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent downplayed any controversy surrounding Qatar’s potential gifting of a luxury jet to the Trump administration, comparing it in an interview today to other gifts the US has received, like the Statue of Liberty or Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.

Pressed by CNN’s Jake Tapper on how the gift might actually be “a bill that could come due,” Bessent said Qatar wouldn’t necessarily need anything in return.

Given the massive value of a Boeing 747-8, the move is unprecedented and raises substantial ethical and legal questions.

A Qatari official said the plane is technically being gifted from the Qatari Ministry of Defense to the Pentagon, describing it more as a government-to-government transaction instead of a personal one. The Defense Department would then retrofit the plane for the president’s use with security features and modifications.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had a “good meeting” today in Italy with US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The trio discussed Friday’s peace talks in Istanbul, “where Russia sent a low-level delegation with no decision-making powers,” Zelensky said in a post on social media, echoing his complaints last week that the Kremlin did not take the Turkey meetings seriously.

The three men also “touched on” Russian sanctions, the battlefield situation and future prisoner swaps, Zelensky said.

“I thank the American people for their support and leadership in saving lives,” his post concluded.

Today marked the first time Zelensky and Vance have met since their spat in the Oval Office in February, where the vice president castigated the Ukrainian leader for a perceived lack of gratitude for US support.

Vance, who traveled to Rome with Rubio for the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV, also met today with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.

Vance thanked Meloni for hosting the meeting, calling her a “bridge-builder” between Europe and the United States, and said the conversation will hopefully mark the start of long-term trade negotiations and advantages between the US and Europe.

A top Trump adviser dismissed any daylight between the US and Israel after President Donald Trump bypassed Israel twice this month for bilateral deals in the region.

Adam Boehler, Trump’s special envoy for hostage affairs, said the US is keeping the Israeli government closely informed of its plans, even as there appears to be growing differences between the allies. Trump skipped Israel on his Middle East tour as he announced a truce with the Houthi rebels in Yemen and the lifting of US sanctions on Syria.

Boehler described talks to end the Israel-Hamas conflict as “very fluid” and said Hamas’ release of American citizen Edan Alexander marked an important step.

His comments come as the Israeli military has ramped up airstrikes and ground operations across Gaza.

House Speaker Mike Johnson indicated Republicans may move up the timeline for the implementation of work requirements for Medicaid recipients in an effort to sway GOP hardliners to support the bill advancing President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda.

Five right-wing House Republicans kept the bill from advancing out of the House Budget Committee last week. Conservative hardliners have criticized the bill for not cutting enough and potentially adding to the federal deficit.

A key area of contention is the timing of work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients in 2029, after President Donald Trump’s term. Hardliners have said that timeline needs to be much sooner, but Johnson has cited concerns about states having enough time to implement the changes.

After a weekend of negotiations, the House Budget Committee is expected to reconvene tonight to try and pass the bill through committee again. Johnson indicated he expected no more delays.

A top adviser to President Donald Trump predicted tomorrow’s planned call with Russian President Vladimir Putin will “clear up some of the logjam” as negotiations to end Moscow’s war in Ukraine remain largely gridlocked.

The call “will go a long way toward identifying where we are and how we complete this negotiation,” Witkoff said.

The envoy characterized Trump as “determined” to reach a deal and highlighted his relationship with Putin. “If he can’t do it, then nobody can,” Witkoff said.

Trump frequently said on the campaign trail that he could end the war on his first day in office, but he has expressed frustration in the early months of his presidency with the halting nature of the peace talks.

Kyiv and Moscow held their first direct discussions in three years but emerged with little progress last week.

Ukraine is doing “a lot to demonstrate that they are interested in ending this war,” and Russia needs to show they’re also serious about peace, US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said in a Fox News interview today.

Whitaker’s comments come after Kyiv and Moscow held their first direct talks in three years but emerged with little progress last week. Putin pitched the meetings in Turkey after ignoring calls for a 30-day ceasefire. Zelensky initially accepted, but neither leader ultimately attended, and Zelensky criticized his Russian counterpart for not sending “any real decision-makers” to the talks.

“I think Ukraine has done a lot to demonstrate that they are interested in ending this war and ending it however it needs to be ended — to make sure that we don’t lose 5,000 young men and you know, private citizens as well, like you saw with these drone attacks overnight,” Whitaker added.

Russia battered Ukraine overnight with its largest drone attack since the war began, Ukraine’s military said Sunday.

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to a spokesperson for the vice president.

The meeting comes as President Donald Trump’s administration continues its halting efforts to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine. And it’s a day before Trump is expected to speak about the war with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone.

Trump is also expected to speak with Zelensky after his call with Putin.

Vance, Rubio, Zelensky and Andriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, are meeting at the Villa Taverna, the US ambassador to Italy’s residence.

Vance and Rubio traveled to Rome for this weekend for the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV.

The leaders of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Poland are set to speak with US President Donald Trump ahead of his call tomorrow with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Trump and Putin are set to talk directly Monday about ending the Ukraine war. The US leader once said he could end the conflict on his first day in office, but has expressed frustration in the early months of his presidency with the halting negotiations.

Trump’s call with the European leaders will come after a discussion Friday between Merz, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The leaders discussed the Russia-Ukraine peace talks that were taking place in Istanbul that day, a spokesperson for Zelensky told CNN.

GOP Rep. Ralph Norman, one of the Republicans who voted against advancing President Donald Trump’s massive domestic policy bill, said House Republican leaders appear to be moving in the direction of conservative holdouts on some key sticking points this weekend.

Norman told CNN he expects House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington to offer an amendment during tonight’s committee meeting to make some of the changes demanded by the GOP holdouts.

Trump, GOP sources said, was not directly involved in yesterday’s negotiations between Republican leaders and the conservative hardliners, but White House officials were.

Among the changes under consideration: Speeding up implementation of new work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries, and speeding up how quickly to phase out tax credits for green energy projects under the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act.

Norman said the holdouts “absolutely” must get those two concessions to change their votes.

But making those changes could turn off moderate Republicans — including a number who are worried that phasing out the tax credits could imperil jobs in their districts — and others worried about cuts to Medicaid benefits.

Still, two GOP leadership sources also told CNN that signs appeared positive that the bill would get back on track in tonight’s House Budget Committee meeting.

President Donald Trump’s agenda has been thrown into chaos after a group of GOP hardliners blocked his “big, beautiful bill” from advancing out of a key House committee on Friday — dealing a major embarrassment to Republican leaders and Trump himself.

Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team are now spending the weekend trying to win over those Republicans before attempting the vote again. The House Budget Committee has scheduled a rare late Sunday meeting for 10 p.m. ET to try to advance the bill out of the committee in preparation for a floor vote by the end of the week.

It will be a tough task to flip the hardliners, who are demanding more spending cuts from Medicaid and from federal clean energy programs, especially as Johnson must also be careful not to alienate moderates.

GOP leaders took a gamble and went ahead with Friday’s committee vote despite repeated warnings from a core of right-wing Republicans that they planned to block the effort. Five Republicans ultimately opposed the bill in the Budget Committee’s meeting to stitch together the various pieces of Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts bill.

The lawmakers’ opposition enraged many members of their party, who have spent months helping draft the bill, which includes trillions of dollars in tax cuts and a big boost to the US military and to national security — largely paid for by overhauls to federal health and nutrition programs and cuts to energy programs.

As Republicans discuss options for moving Trump’s agenda forward this weekend, a group of GOP lawmakers is pushing to raise taxes on high-income earners to offset the cost of SALT, a state and local tax deduction.

Swing-district members argue that raising the top tax bracket would help offset the cost of the deductions and give legislators more flexibility, but hardliners have warned they won’t agree to increasing the SALT cap if it isn’t paid for.

As the jockeying for a consensus continues, all eyes are on tonight’s House Budget Committee meeting. Republican Rep. Buddy Carter, who serves on the committee, voiced confidence that Trump’s bill will pass this week, telling Fox News yesterday that he is “very confident we will get it done.”

“It’ll be on the floor Wednesday, Thursday at the latest,” the Georgia Republican said.

CNN’s Riane Lumer contributed to this report.

President Donald Trump says he’ll speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine by phone tomorrow.

Trump has expressed frustrationat the lack of progress on peace talks in recent days and suggested he alone can move the negotiations forward.

Here’s where things stand:

Trump announced his plans to speak with Putin in a post on Truth Social yesterday, and the Kremlin later confirmed to Russian state media that preparations for the call were underway.

Trump says he plans to speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and various members of NATO after he talks with Putin.

While the first direct talks between Ukraine and Russia in three years could have heralded a new era of diplomacy, they were ultimately limited in scope and lacking the presence of each country’s leader.

Both Zelensky and Putin ultimately skipped the talks in Turkey after several days of confusion, which saw Putin pitch the talks and Zelensky accept, then each leader backing away. Zelensky criticized his Russian counterpart for not sending “any real decision-makers” for the discussions.

Ultimately, the meetings yielded a prisoner swap and further talks about the two presidents meeting, but little appeared to substantively change regarding the terms each country was willing to accept to end hostilities.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Italy this weekend for the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV, along with Vice President JD Vance.

Rubio met with Cardinal Matteo Zuppi at the Vatican yesterday to “discuss the urgent need to end the Russia-Ukraine war,” according to State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce.

“The Secretary expressed appreciation for the Vatican’s important humanitarian role, including facilitating prisoner exchanges and the return of forcibly transferred Ukrainian children. He emphasized the importance of continued collaboration under the new leadership of Pope Leo XIV,” Bruce said in a statement.

President Donald Trump returned from a whirlwind trip to the Middle East last week with investment deals in hand and a new bond with Syria forged, but still dogged by the familiar conflicts that have long hovered over the region.

Here’s some of the key takeaways:

Trump announced he was making a major change in US foreign policy and dropping sanctions against Syria. There were no caveats presented. However, by week’s end, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to clarify the US position, saying the administration would start by issuing a temporary waiver of some Syria sanctions. A permanent repeal, he said, would come later in a request to Congress.

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly moved the goal posts on Trump who, in turn, keeps giving the Russian president a pass. For days, Trump teased the idea of flying to Turkey to personally mediate Russia-Ukraine talks. When Putin (and then Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky) made clear he wasn’t going, Trump was left hanging.

Trump would have liked to unveil a major agreement between Israel and Hamas during this trip — and could have added a stop in Israel. But the conflict is at risk of escalation as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launches a more intensive phase of the war in Gaza.

Trump continues to express optimism about the prospects for a nuclear deal with Iran, but the complicated discussions don’t appear close to a solution.

Several Democrats praised Trump’s trip. Rep. Jim Himes begrudgingly acknowledged he thought Trump had handled most of the trip well.

Read CNN’s full takeaways from Trump’s Middle East trip here.